I am trying to use wine on a double boot system with NTFS on the windows (2000) end of the disk. Does Wine support this? Although Wine appears to be installed properly I can't get any win-apps running. Tim _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tim Janssen wrote:> I am trying to use wine on a double boot system with NTFS on the windows > (2000) end of the disk. Does Wine support this? Although Wine appears to > be installed properly I can't get any win-apps running. > > TimAint up to wine whether you can write on an ntfs partition, wine relies on the *nix OS services for that. Show me a windows app that will run on a read-only FS. You might get some relief using a technique of shadowing described in <wine>/documentation/installing.sgml, even the doco is obsolete wrt the name of ~/.wine/config, and looks like it spells /c_/ in places when it means /c/. Also you will need to change the config file a bit: ; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default. ; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole ; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself. "ShowDirSymlinks" = "1" You are probably better off with a no-windows installation. With Microsoft, the general rule is, the newer, the nastier. Lawson ---oof---
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:23:16 +0200, Tim Janssen <timtjanssen@yahoo.com> wrote:>I am trying to use wine on a double boot system with NTFS on the windows >(2000) end of the disk. Does Wine support this? Although Wine appears to >be installed properly I can't get any win-apps running.Write support for NTFS is known to be somewhat lacking on Linux, so usually the partition is mounted read-only. If your app can use a write-only partition, Wine will be able to help. But there are not a lot of applications that expect their C: to be read-only so in practice this will usually fail. Gerard
Tim Janssen wrote:>I am trying to use wine on a double boot system with NTFS on the windows >(2000) end of the disk. Does Wine support this? Although Wine appears to >be installed properly I can't get any win-apps running. > >Tim > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >_______________________________________________ >wine-users mailing list >wine-users@winehq.com >http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >Lotus Notes 5.02-5.05 works very well under WIne with no windows installation. I'm running Transgaming cvs (wine-20011004) with a patch from Gerard/Lawson and everything in Notes functions well. Why not do away with the Win NT stuff? Rick Knight (rick@rlknight.com)
Tim Janssen wrote:> I am trying to use wine on a double boot system with NTFS on the windows > (2000) end of the disk. Does Wine support this? Although Wine appears to > be installed properly I can't get any win-apps running. > > TimAs best I am aware, this isn't a WINE problem, but more a kernel problem. Your kernel must be compiled with NTFS support to read your windows drive, and NTFS-write support to write to it. However, NTFS-write support is almost certainly not enabled in any default kernel, as it is extremely unstable. Personally, I agree with Richard, install your windows apps wherever possible on your ext2 filesystem, as this should work fine.